Then, there's Thailand, which has a better healthcare system. Their life expectancy is significantly higher than regional counterparts, and is even slightly longer than that of the U.S. The reason is that they focuses on distribution of care throughout the rural areas, where it is needed. Much of healthcare is a delivery issue – getting medicines and healthcare personnel to the people that need it. In the U.S. so much time and effort is spent developing formal healthcare plans, and incorporating the plan into a complex system which is integrated with a complex insurance reimbursement program that allows the system to continue to function. So much money and effort is devoted to maintaining the system, than to actual patient care. Note that Dr. Kaufman says that he operates outside the insurance system, allowing him to practice the way he does. That works for some situations, such as his telemedicine practice, but doesn't work for more complex and technologically involved areas such as surgery or oncology. You need some kind of insurance program or risk-sharing arrangement for things like this. But for primary care, availability and care delivery is probably most of the battle.
There is (at the time of this typing) a live fundraising YT video for Physics Girl, who has ME/CFS. I liked the interview with her physician, Dr. David Kaufman, who provided what is probably the latest on defining what LongCOVID is. Towards the end of the interview is a strong indictment against how medicine works in the U.S., where physicians have 15 minutes to interact with a patient. That's not enough interaction time for some diseases, and is not how medicine is supposed to operate. This is because of the corporatization of medicine, where doctors are employees of some large organization, instead of the independent practitioners they used to be. This person even goes as far as saying that doctors are trained to think critically. That's just based on her medical school experience, and her lack of such development shouldn't be generalized. Doctors are certainly trained to think critically. But they just don't have time now.
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Oregon can't have nice things. So we have a heat wave, and a pool gets shut down because someone pooped in the pool. And an American Airlines flight is diverted because an Oregon man exposed himself and peed in the aisle.
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Microsoft is working to stop the Skeleton Key jailbreak. It's hard to stop this generative AI jailbreak when one doesn't really understand completely how generative AI really operates. Yes, you can lower hyperparameters like temperature, but by increasing predictability, chat becomes less creative and more like a playback device.
But some are worried that AI is progressing so quickly that we only have about 8 years of life as we know it. It's interesting that in other countries, AI is already taking away many jobs, more so than we see in the U.S.
Washington state is seeing an "alarming" surge in EBT scams. Another example of Democrat "solutions" that beget more problems.
This will be fun to watch. Many Chinese millennials are now quitting their jobs without anything to fall back on. "Naked resignation" they call it. Hey, Chinese hippies – I haven't seen those before.
Glaze, and other solutions to prevent AI from stealing the work of artists, has been cracked. It's an arms race, and now new algorithms need to be developed to protect artists' IP.
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Signal stores its encryption keys in plaintext. I find it hard to believe that this is accidental. I'm already off Signal.
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